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Wednesday, 25 November 2015

This is kelsoos first draft list of proposed default applications for the Dragora 3 CD. Dragorians please comment.

After looking as all the options many were rejected as to bloated and not in the spirit of keeping things simple and pure and nearer to the Unix way as we could. We decided to avoid GTK3 and QT5 at least by default. We decided to avoid systemd and all it's baggage.
Dragora users tend to make their system their own but we all have a similar desire to keep the system light, flexible and libre. In short non of the current developers or users would keep the default install, we all know what we want and can build the packages to make our perfect desktop or working environment.

We felt that the new D3 CD should be geared for ordinary users and try to use the one application for one job model. In a clean functional interface that would allow them to either just use it or help use make it better. If ordinary users have the bandwidth and higher spec computers and reguire higher spec applications they should add them from the repo or use the Dragora 3 DVD.iso.

Summary

The desktop will is aimed at ordinary users (Non technical)that want to run free-libre-software.
It aims to be light so it is available users with old low spec computers (512MB pentium4) as a base but usable on less.
It aims to be accessible for people with slow or expensive internet.
It aims to be easy to use for most common tasks.
It aims to be secure and offer some extra level privacy to the user.
It aims to try and avoid large monolithic dependences.
It aims to offer a good base for users wishing to learn to program.
It shall not use systemd.
It shall not use pulse-audio by default.

Notes.
(AP = action point)
(D3 = Dragora 3)
(Nessie = seamonkey)

Proposed default D3 setup for Dragora 3 CD.

Login:
xdm made pretty ap (kelsoo)

window manager:
openbox ap (kelsoo)

file manager:
spacefm
comment: spacefm has an excellent range of plug-ins that can be added.